- Mr. Angus Hudson, Butler: I'm sorry you had to use the door knocker, sir. An electric bell system is being installed.
- Arthur Bellamy: You forget, I am not London born. I think my hand is not so pampered and weak that it needs electricity to help it.
- Mrs. Bridges: And now you'll be punished?
- Mr. Angus Hudson, Butler: [Softly] Yes.
- Mrs. Bridges: That's life. You have to pay for every bit of happiness you have. I sometimes wonder what kind of awful sin we all committed at the beginning.
- Mr. Angus Hudson, Butler: [Reproachfully to Edward, who's smoking a pipe] Edward! Tobacco slows the nervous reflexes and yours are quite slow enough! Put that abominable instrument away and lay out two trays.